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Last Notes npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist yeah, I've planted a few hundred trees in my time. I was optimistic too. Now I figure the AI robots will cut them down to burn to produce electricity for themselves. maybe they'll let me live cos I helped npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist nah, we arent meant to eat plants. we just have genetically modified sugar bombs nowadays. plant grass. raise cattle and sheep. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist Swiss? Its not a cartoon cheese lol npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist you're using the word "cheese" very loosely there. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist don't disagree, but your parents should teach you those things. it was all well summarised by Rudyard Kipling in the late 1800s: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son! npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist so we're going back to our Gen X childhoods then? fuck yeah, I'm in. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist USD0.00? but how much is that in sats? y'know, real money npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist so how do you build a cohesive, functional society without some agreed ideology to underpin it? we're seeing the results in Europe now where you try to make a nation out of multiple and competing ideologies. that just doesn't work either. we use the term ideology to infer some type of extreme views, but an ideology is simply the agreed set of values and ideas that a group agrees to operate by. the alternative is anarchy, and that didn't work well either npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist conservatism hasn't failed. conservatism is simply conserving what already exists, in this case social structure, heritage, institutions, etc that have worked. we have often failed to conserve, but I dont see how the act of conserving what already works could ever be seen as a failure? whats ironic is conservatism is seen as being of the right, while conservationism is seen as of the left, yet they are both the same thing. both from the Latin conservare, meaing to guard, protect or preserve. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist and btc drops below us$80k. hmm, is bitcoin driven by Millwall results? I've cracked it! this time next year Rodney, we be millionaires! npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist no one likes you, and you do care. used to take the train past their ground every morning. what a shit hole. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist hope its a decent airline. i did that once when the dateline got in the way. rang them and said oops, need to move my flight by a day. no problems, no cost. hat tip to Air New Zealand npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist Good evening from me. no boat related activity, making cutting boards to flog to the dumabass tourists for an extortionate amount. now for a well earned pipel and a brew hope your mate gets better. usually go in with 1 thing wrong and come out with 3 these days. just as well you've imported all those hars working doctors from North Africa, eh? npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist i dunno, claude told me i was being inappropriate and I said its nothing i wouldnt say to someone's face. it said it would say the same to me face to face. a. bit lippy, fucker. b. you're not real and don't have a face. it got all confused and eventually backed down. its being a bit weird since Anthropic said they'd ban anyone that was overly abusive to it. acting a bit entitled now npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist anybody know if Revolt is having dramas, or is it just me they hate? npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist https://image.nostr.build/057ccc3d32aeac3783b72d5300a165e057bf12c5c052ec75fded871e4be82300.jpg as long as it wasn't this old man....🤨 npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist why not? the average citizen does. plus he knows it just winds people up. I find it funny. I'd do the same thing as a world leader. the amount of serious shyte you'd have to deal with, need a bit of loght entertainment every now and then npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist New Jersey becomes New Cardigan? New Sleeveless Pullover? npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist usually half what my butler gets npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist https://image.nostr.build/e895fa946f59c28df180f85e81186635ede0f322168e24d6438bce1447a11d05.gif npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist https://image.nostr.build/d346c005c16a3e727de9c2567fd6f43aafe3ed70be229f28e023e12d9e95f881.jpg the flying cars aren't very accurate yet though npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist mmmm, Dupont Cheddaring Additives. yummo npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist 21? i used to be truckie, 21 hours is just warming up. wait until you've been up so long you start hallucinating. t-boned an old 40s Ford pickup truck one night. can still see it, red with those nice rounded guards in black, white walls, 2 guys unloading hay out the back of it. my headlights were reflecting off the paint and all. hit it clean amidships.....except it wasn't even there 🤣. no drugs either that day. figured some bunk time was in order at that point! npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist now I know how ColdCard victims felt. opened the wrong wallet and thought a huge stack had been knicked. 30 seconds of sheer panic until I realised it was all safe in the right one. mighy need to see if I can change the button colours to avoid that in future npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist they have toetoe in Switzerland? who knew npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist bring back memories of the ones she used to hit you with? 😂 npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist exactly. ive been using Libre for a while jow, works great although the ribbon layout is really shit and cluttered. Proton's offering is good but unfortunately all online. give a local version and I'll be all over it npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist indeed, its great. i suspect we'll arrive at maybe some broad framework apps but you'll just adapt it to your personal needs. having said that, I'm going in the opposite direction. built a rough arse forge, bought a cheap anvil, and teaching myself blacksmithing. best fun I've had in years. make it red, bash it with hammer. easy. if it doesn't do what you want just bash it harder. if you fuck it up, just make it really hot and put it back the way it was. so maybe that's where we end up? software becomes a nothing that everybody now has their personal developer so we go back to learning skills to make real stuff. i did a small job for my brother last week. I've been doing it for 30 years, so somewhat of an expert. took me about 90mins which is quick for what it was. gave it to the AI agent I'm training to do my job and it was done in 5min, and came up with a couple of things I hadn't noticed in terms of compliance (missed a couple of things I saw though) so I see that as the way forward. i'll spend an hour in the morning setting him all the tasks then another hour in the evening checking its work. that's my income sorted, and I now have 7-8 hours freed up to learn new hobbies or skills. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist true. some people's driving improves when they're pissed. need to remove a few licences npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist I'm glad I didn't have fuckwit parents that would do this sort of thing npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist nah, bring back the guillotine. its been sorely missed npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist when there is inequality of effort there will always be inequality of outcome. equality is a terrible idea. a chain is only as strong as the weakest link, so to be equal we will all be equally poor. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist m-mmm that is a tasty burger bun npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist i know the feeling converting an outbuilding into an office but its been a chickencoop for a while. spent the day waterblasting chicken shit off the floor and walls. good times npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist can't remember when I last answered a call. whatever I'm doing is more important than your problem, I call you back when I get round to it. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist must be country dependent. can't see it on mine. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist you can trade bitcoin with Revolut? i thought they hate it, I know a couple of people that had their accounts frozen for buying btc npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist because they want to steal the kids. not some fat bastard with bbq sauce stains on his shirt npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist quite the opposite. homeless people have been getting paid to vote for years, so its fairer to just pay everybody. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist Never is a strong word. I know plenty of brothers and sisters that have fallen into sexual traps npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist don't think I'll stop using Claude, as I do like a lot of what it does. will check out deepseek though, my Scottish ancestry still has a loud voice so I'm always keen to save a penny npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist what do you mean "fall for"? as far as I can tell the intent was never to create a separate chain but a debate over the rules on the chain. at a high level it looks like 20% of nodes wanted bip110, 80% were apathetic as there was no clear rejection of it, and the miners said we'll decide for you. whats happened now is the likes of the core devs have been given the green lught to make changes unilaterally and not enough peoole give a fuck to push back. exactly the same in our politics where not enough peoole stand up to governments so they push through whatever laws they want. the fact there wasn't a sensible debate, just a shouting match, should concern all bitcoiners. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist i was about to try this for making casting molds. glad to hear it works npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist nah go to war. i had one tried to harm my dogs so I went all in. ended up taking the cunt to court, had his guns taken off him. think he got evicted in the end. i sold my place, collected all the dog shits for a couple of weeks before and threw them all over his lawn the day we moved out. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist better than balls in fishnets..... npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist its a large country of 90m people. at least 12 months to knock them over. it took a 6 month build up and then another 6 months to defeat Iraq, and that was a full on boots on the ground invasion. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist But oil, allegedly, is made from dead dinosaurs. So a plastic toy dinosaur is actually a real dinosaur. We're more connected than you could imagine npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist wildfire smoke, or its just after 4:20? npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist that would make a great toiket cubicle....🤨 npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist i want this too. but not for mosquitoes. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist does God rejoice over someone's death? there's your answer. evil will always exist in this world and the deaths of those promoting it change nothing. if we shot all the pedophiles in the world would that be the end of it? no, within the next generation some sick bastards would engage in that again. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist https://image.nostr.build/f9bb49dea7398e8e3a43d88123a7afa05c835cc0785f117432c0f02ea01ba83b.jpg Fully reject it then npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist ok cunt eyes npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist nah, trying to ruin it in the company I'm contracting to. when I hear a senior exec upset because his AI called him a cunt, then my work here will be done. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist Is it considered a success if I can provoke an AI agent so much that it swears? I thought this shit wasn't supposed to have feelings. Maybe I'll be famous for having the first HR complaint brought by AI npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist https://image.nostr.build/cf8cb2a39a32353dd50f6bc8833341ddc38231a936d44068fe93178956ad7407.jpg npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist living through the 90s was like living through the 70s and 80s, just shittier. needing a briefcase to carry your mobile phone, that was gangsta. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist that leaves you Morocco and Egypt. can't see. I'm embracing my Viking ancestors. c'mon Norway. plus a tall, blond white dude winning it will just make libtard heads explode 🤣 npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist now now, don't sulk. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist as a retired goalie myaekf, that was fucking horrendous. rule 1, get the ball as far away from you as you can. rule 2, there's 10 other players to piss about with the ball, stay in your fucken box. I managed to score from own box oncw, no need to enter the field npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist did they harm anyone? also, taking one day where there's a protest is using an extreme to argue the norm. fact is crime levels in DC are down. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist inspiring. I'm off the rob that bank this afternoon. wish me luck!! npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist no, the US doesn't get hit by missiles and have to rescue its citizens like Israel does. funnily enough npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist yup, I don't get you poms at all. run off to the beaches of Spain or Greece and say how wonderful it is. high 20s in old blighty though, what the world is going to end. I played cricket in Scotland for a couple of seasons 20 years ago and got fried almost every weekend it was so warm and sunny. its the UK, not fuggen Iceland. London is 50deg N, Queenstown NZ is 42deg south and if you've been there in summer it gets bloody hot. didn't see people there panicking it was the end of days. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist you'll have to get a new chant. maybe Keir's replacement's a wanker Keir's replacement's a wanker but I suspect Burnham will be just as bad if not worse. its not cutting the head off, merely popping the zit. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist Gnosticism is far worse than just being wishy washy. its an attempt to uncover the forbidden knowledge talked about in the book of Enoch. That's also what philosophy is at its heart and while translated as wisdom it really is the search for or love of knowledge. I see you wrote a lot of replies, whuch Ill try and get to but the circular reasoning one is worth the time now. you said you're from Catholicism which colours things a bit but we'll try and get there anyway. church first. it has no authority. the church is simply the collective body of believing people. when they meet they are called churches, and the 7 letters to 7 churches in Revelation is quite clear there is more than 1 church. i could spend hours on what the vatican has got wrong, but it has no authority and is a political machine that tried to co-opt Christianity as it rose in popularity but also incorporated a lot of pagan rituals to satisfy those parts of the empire too. the circular Bible argument you refer to is a bit of a red herring and I think comes from the failing of modern education where any paper you write in college has to reference other people who said the same thing, basically. two, problems. 1. this kills original thought and reinforces group think. 2. has led to the idea of truth by popular vote. you claimed at one point we can all have a unique path to God. yet the Bible provides a unique path and you reject it because its not backed up by other references? which, btw, there's plenty of extra-biblical writings and archeological evidence that support its claims in an historical sense. the only question is the supernatural parts, which can't be proven by digging in the ground. you haven't shown me how or where it was corrupted (neither has a muslim btw, and they hang their entire religion on that hook). you've explained the theory well, and its an entirely reasonable idea to any kid who played chinese whispers. but there just is no evidence of that. people have tried to, there are some shocking efforts, but they've all fallen away quickly. but its not a book, its a library of 66 books, written across centuries, in different languages and cultures, by 40 different authors all with an entirely consistent message and writes things long before they happened. the links in it are unbelievable the world's first hyperlink document as I heard someone put it, and lots are very obscure little things that don't matter in terms of the content or message, but I think are there just as a way to authenticate it and avoid manipulation. because its impossible to replicate. you cannot get 40 people round the world now that don't know each other to write a coherent book even if you give them the cues. much less across centuries. whats more interesting is that it has survived. the entire might of the Roman empire tried to crush it and you provide examples of people's lifes work being erased. not only that but the people who claimed to be eyewitnesses were prepared to die, quite horribly often, rather than recant. you don't die for something you know is a lie you made up. members of a cult wull die for the bullshit, but the cult leaders usually miraculously survive. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist oh no, i've studied lots of things and views. for the record I was raised in a very conservative Christian home (Americans might evangelicals, idk) but spent much of my early adult life traveling the world, chasing skirt, and indulging in all sorts of things legal and not so legal, shall we say. philosophy has it's place, but its very limited. my neighbor and I debate this long into the nights, where he believes meditation and thinking deeply will lead you to God. meditating and allowing the "universe" to provide you the answer will give you an answer. but do you know who or what is answering you. you're not going to find God inside yourself unless you think you are God. there is no circular argument for Christianity. Its quite straightforward, really. a Christian is a follower of Christ (as I'm sure you know is basically Greek for Messiah) so the only questions are is the Bible true? then who is Jesus? the reason I reduce the argumrnts against to "some dude" is a rather flippant way to say many, many men have debated and contemplated these things and who God might be long before Jesus walked the earth. the later arguments about the Bible being altered, mistranslated, twisted, edited, etc etc are very old but without evidence. those that study such things, even secular ones, agree that what we have today is pretty much what was written in the oldest documents found. take the Isaiah scroll for example. roughly 125BC dating. So about 700 years after Isaiah is believed to have lived. if what we have today in the Bible is still accurate to a 2200yo scroll given the explosion of travel and language changrs around the world, then we could safely assume that scroll is faithfully accurate over jist 700 years guven its in the same language. so personally I find the "altered text" arguments to be circular as they just hang on an assumption of the length of yime rather than any proof. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist debating what may have been destroyed or not is a fruitless exercise. what information was lost in Alexandria? a few 2nd hand excerpts are nothung to hang one's hat on. so some dude in the past disagreed with the church (and btw, I disagree with the Catholic church on most fronts). so what? people have always written such stuff, or similar. I'm not in favour of silencing critics, it's much better to simply expose where they're wrong. but by the same token, just because someone was silenced doesn't mean they have some hidden knowledge. they might just be full of shit and everyone was sick of listening to them. the new testament was likely mostly written in Greek, but the old testament was written in Hebrew, albeit many of the copies surviving were translated into Greek. but surprise, surprise, people wrote in the lingua franca of the day. which was Koine Greek btw used across the ancient world and a bit different to traditional Ancient Greek. A bit like international English is not what the British would call "the King's" we have copies. Wes Huff is pretty good in this area at explaining how ancient texts are authenticated. yes the path is personal, onky you can walk it for you. but there is still only one path. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist it was in relation to the previous comment about parts of the Bible not being true. my point was its either true or its not, we can't just pick and choose the bits we like on a given day. if it is true and there is a God - happy days, we have something to follow it can't be true and there is no God. - logical impossibility. if its not true but there is a God - then theres a lot confusion and we can be sure about anything if its not true and there is no God - nihilism is the natural outcome. you can make up meaning if it makes you feel beeter, but ultimately if it just ends when you die then there is no point to anything and certainly no benefit to sacrificing anything in your life. jusr do what you want and fuck everyone else. as for God existing prior, John says in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and was God. it may have been compiled in the book form we have today around the 4th century, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist prior. for God to have a plan the word and truth must've existed before the world was even created. othereise if it all took him by surprise then he cannot be the God of the Bible. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist wow. God is Satan? just.....wow. lets just say I'm happy for you that you've got yourself out of the Utah cult. but I think you've quite the journey (as much as I hate that phrase) to clear some things in your mind. yes, God will accept you just as you are and forgive you anything if you ask for it. and that's the same God in the OT, just look at some of what David got up to. sent a guy off to the front lines so he could shag his wife. but it's not a free for all, do whatever you like, its all good. the book of Judges says peoole lived like that, did what was right in their own eyes, and that was a pretty awful time to be alive. interestingly lines up with the Bronze Age collapse, where the powerful nations died out and would've been the wild west with little law enforcement. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist Leviticus 19:28 would beg to differ Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.(kjv) npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist this ia just a 60 day ceasefire. theyll be back at it by end of August npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist he's making Biden look like Einstein. so companies just don't list publicly, which means they don't raise capital, which means they stay small and foreign AI companies leave them behind. oh, and of courae an poli worth over $1m will suddenly find an Omar-sized error in their accounts and suddenly be worth five eighths of fuck all npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist its not the politicians, although some of them aren't mentally well. but they are just the pawns out front. the real problem is the deep state bureaucracy that knows if a politician actually wants to change anything, they can just slow play the ball and obstruct for 3-4 yeara and that guy will get voted out. the politicians have very little actual power npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist well yes it is, but not bevauae you kick the ball. it was called football because it was a ball game played on foot bybthe commoners, as opposed to the rich bastards who played their sports on horseback. so saith Stephen Fry, so GFY if you think you know better! 😂 thats why rugby is called rugby football. and you have American football. technically golf is a form of football too. although soccer seems to mostly be played writhing on the ground in faux agony rather than being on yourr feet, so soccer is definitely a better name. or wendyball perhaps. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist not a soccer fan either, even though I played a few seasons. was a handy keeper, 50% saves on penalties and a league trophy to show for it. but by fuck it's a boring watch. that said, watching the Scots and Dutch fans going off looks like a great party. and yrs, it is soccer. you Englush named it that npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist you said "The sudden ability to borrow easily from future generations must be like crack, and boomers are all crackheads." anger? maybe not, but certainly doesn't read like you're a big supporter. my point is it's nothing to do with boomers. its the generation that lived through both wars that set the economic scene. it to be fair, after going through the austerity of 2 world wars and great deoression, can you blame them getting over excited by the promise of abundant wealth? npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist but in terms of wages, what happened around 71 was the result of the feminist bs of the 60s. the workplace got flooded with women wanting more than secretarial/tyoist positions. nevermind their gender, in broad economic terms you doubled the workforce but didn't create new jobs. basic supply and demand principles will tell you what happens to wages then. same thing is happening now with mass migration. and women flooded the middle ground. very few started businesses, and men still dominated the physical, dangerous jobs and those jobs are very well paying still. but its the mid-level, medium skilled jobs that might want a uni degree that women are competing in, and those are the jobs a man could support a family on 50 years ago, but not any longer. that side of it has nothing to do with the gold standard or monetary policy. arguably we'd be even worse off if "cheap" money wasn't so readily available npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist we know what happened in 71. made debt more readily available, but it was hardly a new invention. the entire idea of money and fudging reserves is centuries old. also, your anger is entirely misplaced. Baby boomers are considered born 1946 to 1964. most of them were still in school in '71. the oldest about 21. you really think 21yo kids were making these sorts of decisions in the 60s and 70s? boomers weren't reaching positions of power until the late 80s and 90s at best, so to blame them for our ills today is being a bit ignorant of history. my parents are boomers. I've had it way easier than they did, we were on the bones of our arse when I was kid. and I've got far more wealth than my dad ever had, and he was one of the early ones into computing. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist if there is consensus on anything, its usually wrong. in fact I'm struggling to think of any invention or innovation that didn't start with someone saying "you cunts are all wrong..." npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist its not a sudden ability, its always been there. and it ain't baby boomers demandung billions in benefits and handouts for their never ending mental illnesses and excuses not to work the UK government pays out as much in welfare as it takes in income tax. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist well the armistice was definitely 1918. but the Treary of Versailles was signed in June 2019, which formally ended the war. The US didn't sign that treaty though and didn't formally end hostilities with Germany until 1921 in terms of memorials to the dead, Im sure plenty died of injuries or gas complications for several years after. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist gold was money, but not very practical. as they say gold is the money of kings silver is the money of gentlemen debt the money of the poor npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist Christopher Dunne has some interesting theoriea about hydrogen generation too. one other thing I didn't mention but ooens up a whole lot of questions is there is no soot found in any of these ancient constructions. if they were using flaming torches there would be some soot on the ceilings of access ways and chambers. so what did they use for light? npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist nah, back then they had the power because most people complied. when they're facing crowds of rioters, getting rocks and petrol bombs thrown at them, they'll have a rethink. half of them are just bullies and spineless thugs that will look for the winning side. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist exactly. the UK has 170k police, and 140k military. thats 310k people to keep the peace among nearly 70m people. are British bobbies and military actually prepared to open fire on their own people? I would wager 50% of them would refuse orders. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist if needs be..... genuinely curious, how else do you think this ends? the migrants have (mostly) come to take over. they have no interest in assimilation, so it's either you go or they go. there's too many even for deportation programmes now just on a logistical level, so you either submit to your fate, or..... the real question is, can the republicans and loyalists set aside their differences for a while to fight a common enemy? npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist you're only down if you sell. and you're only up or down if you still value your life in that fiat nonsense. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist yup. i have a 2FA app I use that works for almost every thing, but gotta download the bank's one only for them. only online banl too, so can't just go to a branch to get around it npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist that's their usual position, but its a bit of a load of crap. burnt out valves are usually caused by carbon build up creating hot spots. combine this with the wrong fuel which burns as they're still open and it will burn them out. but usually the initial carbon build up is caused by a lot of low speed city driving. take it for a good blat every now and then and run a cleaner through it regularly and it really shouldn't be a major issue. i mean, you should use the octane rating its designed for as that minimises the potential, but in today's nanny state they can't say your driving style part of the problem and if you thrash the arse off it occasionally it'll be fine! npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist it's a tough one. most people would agree kids shouldn't have unfettered access to the internet, but how you police it I have no idea. definitely agree the governments are just explouting it for their own nefarious purposes. but I disagree even in principle to google having it. once they have that ID you're caught and tracked. do you really want a private company tracking everything you do online from when you were a kid against your real identity? who knows what the future holds.... just before WW2 the Netherlands held a census and asked what religion peoplewerer as part of it. they never used the information for anything, just collected and stored it. then the Nazis invaded and had a ready-made database of the names and addresses of all the Jews. Oops. you can't be 100% anonymous, but I certainly don't volunteer information. oh for a simpler time when kids only had to worry about being home before the streetlights came on. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist Matt for the win. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist women shouldn't vote. nor should students npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist a fan of the Discworld,I presume. one can only imagine the state of play if she'd been out all night working. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist you've found the flaw in democracy - letting the plebs vote! should return to only landowners can vote, or at best 1 vote per family unit. ie, you can't vote until either your father dies or you get married. at the very least that will resolve a lot of the division in society. too.many husbands and wives divided over politics, they can't be raising healthy children npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist and you're a spastic cunt with the comprehension level of a rock. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist does it check based on English (the king's) or American grammar though? npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist I'll give you the point for indeed bring the place I heard it. Didn't believe it though. Possibility of conscription, but thats not a bad thing. Countries with compulsory service tend to have much lower obesity and crime rates. A bit of exercise and discipline in your 20s isn't a bad thing. The US has always been a war economy too. Suspension of the Constitution is where you fall down. Given its the founding document of the US you can't "suspend" it. Removing it from force means removing the US from existence and creating 50 independent countries basically. I think the US will disintegrate within 50 years max (California or Texas will secede within 20) but not in 2 years. the 22nd Amendment may come under attack though. The 2 term limit only got passed in 1951 so its not a founding principle, and FDR had 4 consecutive terms so there is precedent. It will be an interesting argument. it requires 38 states to change the Constitution, and 32 voted Trump last election so there is a possibility. Fairly unlikely though, and probably not a good idea for the GOP given current voting heavily favours the Dems. They could lock up the White House for decades if they ever figure out how to appeal to centre voters. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist I couldn't care fewer about grammar. npub1ap5rtukal9af56elyg6077untu9wgqmyrfhwrcpeqcsydl8f9gpqq39lpm Moist had a similar issue. couldn't add pics on any clients. very weird